Portugal+Sport


 * Portuguese Sports

Football **  Football (soccer) is easily the most loved and popular sport in Portugal. Football competitions range from local amateur to professional levels. The quality of domestic professional football in portugal is high with portuguese teams regularly competing in European competitions such as the Champions league and Uefa Cup. The sport has been boosted in the country in recent years due to hosting major competitions such as Euro 2004, the sucess of the national team as well as a number of world renowned portuguese players such as Cristiano Ronaldo.

Rugby sevens is a fastly growing sport in Portugal, primarily as a result of the the success of the national team in recent international competions. Rugby sevens is a fast paced exciting version of rugby union where instead of 15 players on each team there are only 7. However rugby sevens is only played in certain areas and to some extent is still a minority sport.
 * Rugby (Sevens) **


 * Portuguese Style - Bullfighting**

Portuguese Bullfighting is very similar to that of its Spanish counterpart except for one crucial part, the Portuguese don't believe in killing the bull. Bullfights are held in two phases, firstly there is the spectacle of the cavaleiro, who rides on horseback and aims to put three or four javelins into the back of the bull. This is then followed by the Pega who provokes the bull to run at him, he attempts to subdue the bull without any protection or weapons of defense.

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